[Twisted-Python] Twisted Project Jobs Volunteer

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

On Nov 13, 2011, at 1:13 AM, Tim Allen wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:18:03AM +1100, Tim Allen wrote:
>> In fact, it seems you can just specify "-rHEAD" and you'll get a repo
>> with only the latest trunk revision in it. If the resulting repository
>> can gracefully handle updates that add new branches, and new commits on
>> old branches that haven't been imported, this would probably be the best
>> approach for Git-using potential contributors.
> 
> I did a git-svn clone with "-rHEAD" on the day I posted that message,
> and now when I run "git svn fetch" my repository has the following
> branches:
> 
>    $ git branch -a
>    * master
>      remotes/svn/multicast-doc-4262
>      remotes/svn/new-resource-5379
>      remotes/svn/select-halfclose-3037
>      remotes/svn/trunk
>      remotes/svn/udp-doread-win-3396-2
>      remotes/svn/website-template-5380
> 
> The "gitk" branch visualisation tool shows me that SVN trunk is currently at
> r33098 (which merged udp-doread-win-3396-2, although it doesn't show up
> as a merge commit in git) and all the other branches have been created
> from that point. So, it looks like it is gracefully handling new
> branches, which is all we really wanted.
> 
> Should I update the "GitMirror" page to suggest people run "git svn
> clone -rHEAD" instead of using the no-longer-updated official mirror?
> Perhaps the page should also be renamed?

Sounds like this is a better idea than what we're advising people to do now, although it also sounds like we should add a post-commit hook to push to tell our local bzr mirror to 'git svn fetch' and then the official mirror will be a good idea again.  (And possibly something with pushing to github?  I don't know.  Someone who cares about Git should set it up, not me. :))